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Cold Case: Forever Blue
injest:
--- Quote from: jstephens9 on April 08, 2009, 01:23:14 pm ---It will never be old stuff to me. This was one spectacular show....as you say a masterpiece!!! Thanks for the picture and the interview. I have never seen that picture before. I would have really liked to have seen this transformed into a movie which truly could have been done. Who knows maybe one day it will be. Being gay as a policeman certainly would not have been easy in the 60s and it would not be easy now either. The same goes for firemen. It seems that many of these groups are forgotten since they are so dissimilar from the stereotypical idea that a gay person is an interior decorator, etc. The same of course goes for being a cowboy as was shown in Brokeback. The world really needs to realize all the many places and professions gay people do exist and maybe it would be easier for the general population to accept in the long run.
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you are right..
instead we get 'Bruno'... :-\
milomorris:
--- Quote from: jstephens9 on April 08, 2009, 01:23:14 pm ---It seems that many of these groups are forgotten since they are so dissimilar from the stereotypical idea that a gay person is an interior decorator, etc. The same of course goes for being a cowboy as was shown in Brokeback. The world really needs to realize all the many places and professions gay people do exist and maybe it would be easier for the general population to accept in the long run.
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Correct. Nobody thinks about policemen and firemen when the word "gay" comes up in conversation.
I think the biggest reason for the lack of sexual minorities in certain traditionally-male professions is the fear of homophobia. This is similar to the way that certain types of blacks avoid careers and companies that appear to be lily-white for fear of racism. If some of these gay men were as "proud" as they claim, they wouldn't avoid these careers. The leadership and rank-and-file of the orthodox gay community would be doing young sexual minorities a service by encouraging them to a more diverse range of career choices.
Of course it would help if more attention was placed on ending workplace discrimination for sexual minorities. But the Gay Party has always had a skewed set of priorities IMO.
injest:
--- Quote from: milomorris on April 08, 2009, 09:08:47 pm ---Correct. Nobody thinks about policemen and firemen when the word "gay" comes up in conversation.
I think the biggest reason for the lack of sexual minorities in certain traditionally-male professions is the fear of homophobia. This is similar to the way that certain types of blacks avoid careers and companies that appear to be lily-white for fear of racism. If some of these gay men were as "proud" as they claim, they wouldn't avoid these careers. The leadership and rank-and-file of the orthodox gay community would be doing young sexual minorities a service by encouraging them to a more diverse range of career choices.
Of course it would help if more attention was placed on ending workplace discrimination for sexual minorities. But the Gay Party has always had a skewed set of priorities IMO.
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huh..
this just recently came up for me. We have an opening in the company I work for...making good money, all days, good work environment...I have a friend that works in retail...shaky job market, cruel boss, late nights, weekends, heavy responsibility...
he wouldn't even come apply because we dont' currently have any other Black men working there...
sel:
Some of you may have heard of him, Fabrizio Caiazza, the openly gay Italian cop. I really admire this guy.
He was on the Italian news last year.
From www.Guardian.co.uk September last year:
Caiazza, 33, entered the 'Sex Factor' contest organised by UK website Gaydarnation.com earlier this year, donning his police uniform to pose for online shots in the Mr Uniform category. Beating 46,000 contenders from 162 countries, he scooped a modelling contract and a €15,000 top prize, only to be sent before a disciplinary board back in Milan for wearing his uniform without permission outside office hours.
Here's an interview:
http://http://www.rainbownetwork.com/UserPortal/Article/Detail.aspx?ID=21458&sid=74[url]
milomorris:
--- Quote from: sel on April 09, 2009, 12:54:29 pm ---only to be sent before a disciplinary board back in Milan for wearing his uniform without permission outside office hours.
http://http://www.rainbownetwork.com/UserPortal/Article/Detail.aspx?ID=21458&sid=74[url]
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Good effort, but slightly off target. If he wants to change Italian's minds about sexual minorities, appearing on the cover of a gay magazine isn't going to have much effect because most of the readers are gay--preaching to the choir. What would have a greater impact is to appear on a mainstream magazine cover.
And why oh why didn't clear the uniform usage beforehand??
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